Population
26277
Students
11285
Employees
Financials
| $1.3B | Payroll |
| $450M | Student spending |
| 252000 | Visitor overnights |
| $177M | Purchasing in Tompkins County and adjacent counties (by location of vendor). |
| $99M | Construction spending in Tompkins County and adjacent counties (by location of prime contractor). |
| $10M | Local contributions to governments, Ithaca City School District, non-profit organizations, and public transit support. |
| $4.8M | Property taxes generated (school taxes $3.1 million, municipal taxes $1.7 million). Taxes paid on Cornell-related properties rank second in Tompkins County. |
| $4.7M | Municipal fees (water, sewer, storm water $2.9 million; other $1.8 million). Cornell operates its own water system for most of the campus and serves as a backup to municipal water systems. |
| $423M | External federal, state and corporate research funding spent locally. |
| $6.5M | Capital raised in 2024 by the companies of Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, founded by Cornell (with Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College). Rev companies created 18 new jobs in 2024. |
| $2.3M | Capital raised by Cornell’s Center for Life Science Ventures’ Ithaca-based clients in 2024. These companies created 9 new local jobs in 2024, total of 40 local jobs. |
| $14.4M | Capital raised by Cornell’s Praxis Center for Venture Development Ithaca based clients in 2024. These companies provide 40 local jobs. |
NOTES: Numbers for students, employees, and payroll are for Cornell’s Ithaca Campus only. Data points other than Students, Employees, REV, Center for Life Sciences, and Praxis are Cornell Fiscal Year, July 1, 2023 - June 30, 2024. This is not an audited financial statement.